Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Interpretation
Embrace the experiences life brings, as they are ultimately beneficial.
This quote by Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that we should allow life to unfold naturally, without resisting or trying to control it. By trusting in the process of life, we can find comfort in the idea that even the challenging moments have their purpose and contribute to our personal growth and understanding.
In practice
During a motivational talk about embracing change, you can use this quote to illustrate the importance of accepting life's journey.
Spring has again returned. _x000D_ _x000D_ The Earth is like a child that knows many poems._x000D_ _x000D_ Many, O so many. For the hardship_x000D_ _x000D_ of such long learning she receives the prize._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Strict was her teacher. _x000D_ _x000D_ The white in the old man's beard pleases us._x000D_ _x000D_ Now, what to call green, to call blue,_x000D_ _x000D_ we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
The only journey is the one within.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.
The day it all changed. The day I stated never to take anything for granted. The day I learned to take charge of my life. It was the day I was diagnosed with cancer.
Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.
Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?'
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. Thatβs what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.
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